The Birthday Wars: Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie 2

Description

Set the dial to catastrophe! Alice Toolie and her worst enemy Jimmy Cook have a huge problem. Their birthday parties are on the same day and they have both invited the whole class. Disaster! There's only one solution. A cake-off. Whoever wins gets to party. Literally. Before long, it's ferocious Woodland Princesses vs Antarctic Explorers in this hilarious book from the CBCA award-winning writers of the Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers series about worst enemies and even worse-r friends.

Kate and Jol are internationally awarded children's authors whose books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Their recent picture book, Room on Our Rock, is an allegory about empathy and refugees. It can be read front-to-back or back-to-front for two different perspectives. The book received the Charlotte Huck Award for outstanding fiction with the potential to transform children's lives. It was also listed as a Notable Book for a Global Society by the International Literacy Association. Kate and Jol live in Sydney, Australia with their two sons. They regularly visit schools and writers' festivals to talk ideas with young readers and writers. When they're not writing, Kate pretends to play the piano and Jol makes little egg-carton shelters for his Star Wars characters. Grace West is a young illustrator and graphic designer working under the nom de plume North South Grace West. She is passionate about illustration, books, typography and print design. Kate, Jol and Grace's previous collaboration, Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie, was shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards for Best Designed Children's Fiction.